Texas

I blame not only the oligarchs, the social reactionaries, but also white tribalism.

One of the most insidious success stories for the Republican Party in Texas is to redistrict out so many white Texas Democrats, leaving their seats in the hands of white Republican reactionaries. This has led to so many of the uninformed, half-asleep voters in so much of Texas voting Republican because they’re white guys. The fact that so many of these voters aren’t millionaires or billionaires and that these reactionaries’ policies hurt them about as hard as people of color just hasn’t made it to their craniums.

Let me also add that I do NOT disapprove of the many non-white Texas Democrats elected before Rove’s underhanded trickery. Texas was never Lily-white and euro-Americans are at most a plurality, not a majority.. But I’d really like to break the ability of the Texas GOP to use white tribalism as an electoral edge here in Texas.